San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-03-30
EDITORIAL BREVITIES

HE Tennessee u RENE court, having
dec. AIRED e dog tax unconstitutional,
the citizens are de- laring the dogs I'M
constitutional as well, anu sausage fac
tories are springing up in unexpected
quarters.
The uncOllared democracy of Chicago
show very strong symptoms Of endOI sing
the republican nominee for mayor.
Worse thiCgs might happen.
IHE crop sections of Texas quito gen
orally report II very favorable crop con.
dIIIOn. On the western border OF this
district, rain is needed. On the cattle
and sheep ranches, however, rain is the
one Thing lacking.
GALVESTON is on the bore. She has re-
Celyed II large consignment of nine and
oeVen-lnch pipe for her artesian WE'LL and
proposes TO reach hot water, sheOl Or
China.
IHE "biddy" statisticians tell us that
the number OF eggs consumed this Len
ten season lays over all previous sea-
sons. The chickens are not keeping
Lent, but are laying the foundation for
Lenten Observances.
ANOTHER argument for the abolition
OF the grand jury inquest into INSIDE
demeanUrs, as matter Of economy, IS
found in the proceedings of the Harri-
son county grand jury, which at its last
session found 26l true bills; nine-tenths
OF them were for mlsdemeanOrs.
a JUDICIAL decision in France en-
dOrses The boycott The ciIzens Of
RambOulllet entered into compact TO
refuse To burn gas. The company that
had the franchise for supplying gas sued
for conspiracy and lost the suit. In that
case the boycott" did not 70.
CARTER HARRISON, under pressure of
those 10 whom he pledged himself not TO
become again Candidate for mayor of
Chicago, has been obliged to withdraw
from The race, and the democratic ticket
OF thai city has gone where the wood
bine IwineIh. Only one nominee of the
convention sticks.
AN exchange which does not believe
10 free trade says, "A girl should marry
tor protection, not for revenue only. :"
Projection brings revenue. This is as
true In maIrimOny as In tariff policy.
he party that goes only for revenue
very frequently finds iteelf without
either protection or revenue. The same
is True Of the girls.
WHOM the Gods would destroy they
fret make mad, appears to be fully ex-
emplitied in the case of the Salisbury
cabinet. The hArsher the measures for
Irish COerc sion the sooner will the tester
Ing ulcer Of her discomfort come TO d
head. With Ireland discomfort England
cannot be con ent. This lesson " III be
written Tor her IN blood If she cannot or
wIIl not OIhei Use learn ii.
The whirligig Of time brings round
! its own Tevenges." Carter Harrison, &C
cepted MS may or and made such by So
cIAllsts votes, could not keep up with
the dynamite procession and has been
rejected by them. The democracy with
out the socialist vote in Chicago are In
hopeless minority and so the party
have no u-e for Carter. Sic transit gloria
J HarrisOnia.
The most sensible thing yet suggested
| by way of a monument 10 the memory
| OF the late Henry Ward Beecher, is that
OF erecting library building in Brook.
| Ign. and endOwing free library for the
use OF the city which mOurned him as q
father beloved. The spirit of the old
man eloquent would linger lovingly
| round such q mOnument,and from every
| volume OF it's crowded shelves, the old
dead giant If pure intelleotualism
would continue to speak. Brooklyn
could not do n wiser or more fitting OF
] a more graceful thing.